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Rain leaves a trail of destruction
* Damage to water supply lines, electricity and telephone cables
* Attawa-Sector 36 road caves in
* Sukhna choe flooded 
Chandigarh, August 3
One side of the road dividing Attawa and Sector 36 near the bridge will be closed at least for the next 12 days as the road towards Sector 36 side caved in after a virtual flash flood in the N choe yesterday.

(Left to right) A vital road link between Kishangarh village and the Northern sectors suffered extensive damage due to the opening of the radial gates at Sukhna Lake; a major part of a road between Sectors 36 and 42, adjoining a culvert on N-choe in Sector 36 caved in exposing the electricity and telephone cables; waste material was trapped in mild steel railing on a culvert connecting Industrial Area with Chandigarh railway station as the swollen choe downstream of Sukhna Lake flowed well above the culvert. — Photos Parvesh Chauhan

PU panel to plug holes in college fee structure
Chandigarh, August 3
Taking cognizance of massive difference in fee in its affiliated colleges, Panjab University has constituted a seven-member committee to point out loopholes in the fee pattern and unjustified charges in several cases, particularly in non-government affiliated colleges.

2 hurt in clash over cremation site

Khellan (Lalru), August 3 Two groups of Ramdasias clashed on Saturday over the right to use their cremation ground here. The two-groups have been exclusively using the site for many years. The clash took place when the groups which has constructed houses adjacent to the cremation ground, objected to the cremation of a 70 year-old woman. Armed with lathis and sticks, Ramdasias guard the pyre of Bagindo Devi at a cremation ground in Khellan village, near Lalru, on Saturday.  — Tribune photo Karam Singh

23 lawyers with fake degrees suspended
Chandigarh, August 3
As many as 50 lawyers practising in various courts in Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana are in the dock for allegedly procuring and using fake law degrees of various universities.

Curing cataract with just minor cut
Chandigarh, August 3
Small is beautiful. And it can be even more beautiful if a surgeon has to make only the smallest possible incision in the eye of a patient to remove the cataract. “Small is beautiful has been the buzzword for eye surgeons for a long time,” says Dr Mahipal S. Sachdev, a leading eye surgeon of the region.

Sculpting battle of Panipat with fibre silica
SAS Nagar, August 3
As the deft fingers of Paramjit Rana sculpt the valiant defiance on the face of King Hem Chandra, the scene of Hemu’s proud defeat in Panipat’s second battle seems to come alive.

CHANDIGARH CALLING The Chandigarh Police seems to learn little lessons from its past experiences. A recent collision between a Army School bus, an official car of a Punjab DIG and a CTU bus at the traffic junction of Sectors 27 and 28, which left 21 school children, is a glaring example of mismanaged traffic junctions in the city. Some recognition! Raveena — the entertainer Struggling for attention Local English No bus stand

COMMUNITY

Paswan to raise PGI temple demolition issue in House

Chandigarh, August 3 Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Ramvilas Paswan here today announced to raise in Parliament tomorrow the issue of the demolition of the Ravi Das temple on the premises of the PGI here. Mr Paswan made the announcement at a press conference before going to the site of the temple demolished in June. Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, president of the Lok Janshakti Party, addresses a press conference at a hotel in Sector 35, Chandigarh, on Sunday. Mr Subhas Sharma, general secretary of the party (left), is also seen in the picture. — A Tribune photograph

MC to buy 50 acres for dairy complex
Panchkula, August 3
The Municipal Council has now decided to buy 50 acres of private land outside the MC limits for setting up a dairy complex. It is learnt that the MC has asked the Revenue Department to locate 50 acres of land either near Mogi Nand, Chowki, or in the Morni area, so that a dairy complex can be set up there. The move comes after the district administration failed to identify and acquire land near Panchkula for the purpose.

A scene at the ISKCON Temple, Hare Krishna Dham, Sector 36, on Sunday, the concluding day of the three-day Teej mela. Bhakti Vinod Dasa Prabhu, president of the local unit of ISKCON, said Teej mela was known as "Shravan Mela" in Vrindavan. It is also known as "Govind jhulan yatra" as Lord Krishna and his consort Radha Rani undertake "jhulan yatra" in the month of "Shravan" to please devotees. — A Tribune photograph

PANCHKULA DIARY
School adopts novel fee collection scheme
Panchkula, August 3
With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introducing its Electronic Clearing Service (ECS) to schools for collecting school fee, The Gurukul, Sector 20, has emerged as the first school in the town to introduce this scheme.

BSNL phones go on the blink
Chandigarh, August 3
Hundreds of land line phones of the BSNL in the city remained out of order today. According to information available, a number of phones in the Southern sectors, including Sector 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40, that are connected with the exchange of Sector 37 were not functioning since yesterday morning.

3 cops hurt as jeep hits bus
Panchkula, August 3
Three cops, including the in charge of Barwala police post, were seriously injured when their official jeep hit a bus parked off the road. It is learnt that the in charge of Barwala police post, Kishan Chand, Head Constable Om Prakash and driver Balwinder Singh were heading for Panchkula from Barwala last night when the accident took place. 

Families of Kargil martyrs honoured

CRIME

20-year-old girl hangs self
Chandigarh, August 3
A 20-year-old girl, Vanika, reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her room in Sector 20 in the late hours yesterday. No suicide note has been found.